Bin night. Very bad back pain day. I'll have to massage some pain relief gel into the area before I can attempt to make two trips out to the road towing wheelie bins. It's 50 metres each way and I'm not looking forward to it. 20 years ago I would enjoy walking a few km. Now I can barely manage 500 m without a walking aID OF SOME KIND.
If your workplace requires password changes every 90 days…
…Just set it to the name of the current UK Prime minister and you should be fine.
Ventura installed on MacBook Pro (2017 Escape key model) 4k iMac (2017) and M1 MacBook Air (2020). iPadOS 16.1 is on the iPad Air 5 & Mini 5. Updated the iPhone 13 Mini to iOS 16.1. Continuity Camera in webcam mode is really neat, later today I'm buying a 'Belkin iPhone Mount with MagSafe for Mac notebooks' so I can attach the iPhone to the MacBook Air. Desktop View is surprisingly effective, it uses the ultrawide lens from the back of the iPhone.
Stage Manager is a good idea on the iPad Air but I've no use for it yet on the Mac.
A package arrived today: a 12South AirFly Pro, a really clever Bluetooth audio interface that can be used to supply audio from a headphone jack to Bluetooth headphones OR to connect a Bluetooth audio source to an automotive sound system with a 3.5mm audio input socket.
Another external HD failure, this time a drive purchased in September 2020, so it’s just outside the 24-month consumer law quality/fit-for-purpose regulations. It was used for one of two weekly Time Machine backups for my MacBook Pro and later for the MacBook Air that replaced it. The defective device was a 2 TB G-Technology G-Drive hard disk.
The 2 TB capacity was excessive, really. I prefer to allow 2.5 to 3 times a Mac’s inbuilt storage for Time Machine backups, so a 256 GB Mac would need 640 to 768 GB of backup capacity, best filled by a 1 TB drive.
I’ve ordered a LaCie Rugged 1TB HDD with USB-C connectivity, in the interim Sunday backups are being done on a 480 GB SSD.
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@variablepulserate As far as I can tell, the main difference between a Scotch pie (silly name for something lacking whisky) and an Aussie meat pie is the pastry, a hot water crust for the Scotch and an unsweetened short-crust for the Aussie product.
@variablepulserate My oldest niece will be visiting for lunch today, which will feature English pork pies, Scottish oatcakes and assorted cheeses and pickles. And, I imagine, much strong tea.
@variablepulserate Copie and paste from another social media outlet featuring Americans always on about “pie” meaning a small piece of a larger dessert pie rather than the proper classic individual hand-held Aussie meat pie. Thechically, the Cornish pastie is a hand pie.
Today's lunch will feature a slow-cooked King Island beef and camembert cheese hand pie, served with mushy peas & sauerkraut.
King Island is the sole land mass between southern Victoria and the Antarctic continent several thousand km away and does NOTHING to interrupt the glacial blasts of wind from the Southern Ocean.
When I bought an Apple Pencil 2 and 256 GB iPad Air 5 Cellular 32 days ago, I paid A$1588. Now that same combination is A$1718. Ouch! Definitely bought at the right time!
Yesterday a 64 GB Cellular iPad 9 sold for A$929, now with the announcement of the iPad 10 the price of the same spec iPad 9 is $150 less. That spec in the iPad 10 is A$999.